Course Detail
Units:
4.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: "B" or better in (PHYS 5570 OR PHYS 5580 OR PHYS 5590 OR ASTR 5570 OR ASTR 5580 OR ASTR 5590 OR ASTR 6410).
Description
This course will discuss a few widely applicable statistical and computational methods of analyzing and modeling phenomena in astrophysics, biophysics, and physics in general. The learning objective is to apply the methods learned in this course to connect experimental or observational data with underlying physical processes through numerical simulations and statistical analyses. Topics that will be covered in this course include stochastic process simulations, Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian analysis, and basic machine learning algorithms. This is a graduate-level course. The course will use Python as the programming language for demonstration and use many examples in physics and astronomy. Students are assumed to be comfortable in programming and have an introductory-level knowledge in physics.